WHo are We

Carbon County Meats, LLC is a family owned and operated meat processing facility nestled between the Beartooth and the Pryor mountains. Sabina and Shane Giovetti are 5th generation Montanans, working on raising the 6th! Both I, (Sabina) and my husband, Shane, graduated from Red Lodge Highschool, in Red Lodge, MT and now live next to the original Giovetti (Sparr) Homestead outside of Roberts, MT.

We met in early 2014 and started on a journey of dating, marriage, and starting a family. During that time Shane worked in the mining industry, while I worked in banking. Shortly after finding out that our second child was on the way, I stepped back from working out side the home to focus on raising our children and taking care of the homestead. Over the next few years, the we welcomed our 3rd child to the family.

Shortly after the birth of our youngest, Shane was injured in a mining accident. This accident caused irreparable damage to Shane’s lungs. Over the next 2 years, there was a long series of doctors visits, tests, and treatments. All these things only were able to bring Shane back to 70% lung capacity. This severity of damage prevented Shane from being able to return to the mining industry as well as limited his job options for the area.

Such a drastic event, left us looking at what options there were for our family. Many of the options included Shane taking a job that would take him out of state, and working rotations for weeks away from the family.

I had always had an entrepreneur spirit, and even had my own small custom sewing business during my time at home. One of the conversations we kept coming back to was going into business for ourselves. We tossed around a few different ideas with the various skill sets Shane has, equipment operating, to custom mill work and many things in between. However, during this time we also saw a large need for meat processing in our area. We had discussed the limited access to local meat processing in our area, and the difficulties that caused area producers, homesteaders, and farm to table operations. One of the biggest difficulties was the distance required to transport animals in order to have them processed, and the limited spaces there were available to those in the region due to the high demand. We saw this as an opportunity to both help our community as well as an avenue to be able to keep Shane working close to home to provide for our family.

So in the Early Spring of 2021 we set out to go into business for ourselves, and offer Custom Exempt meat processing to the surrounding community. We spent many months looking for property that we would be able to either turn into a meat processing shop, or be able to build one. After what seemed like a long and tedious search we found an open lot in Belfry. In June of 2021 we closed on the property and began the process of applying for permits with the county to begin construction. In August we were able to break ground and begin construction on our